Yo-Yo Ma - Classic Yo-Yo (2001) [Reissue 2016]SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 69:27 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,75 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,56 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 708 MB
Sony Music Hong Kong (SACD Reissue) Classic Yo-Yo is a greatest-hits collection for the famous Yo-Yo Ma, something he's fully entitled to after two decades of runaway success. It's "Classic Yo-Yo" in the sense that it presents well-loved and presumably durable selections from a variety of Yo-Yo Ma albums, not because it inclines toward Ma's straight-ahead classical recordings. In fact the division between classical and crossover pieces on the disc is about 50/50, and they tend to alternate. The transition from Bach to Astor Piazzolla works OK, but that from Appalachian Journey mastermind Edgar Meyer to Brahms might be a bit jarring. A greatest-hits album is a tough item for Ma because his recordings are so different from one another and involve such a variety of other musicians. As Ma himself says in an interview included in the liner material, "Collaboration is the best part of what I do, it's what I enjoy most about being a musician".